Plate I. The Summer Project, 1955–1973
ELIZA, the first chatbot
Joseph Weizenbaum’s ELIZA imitates a psychotherapist with simple pattern matching. Users confide in it anyway, which alarms its creator.
Date confidence: high
Sources
- ELIZA: a computer program for the study of natural language communication between man and machine, Communications of the ACM primary
- ELIZA, Wikipedia secondary